SAT Practice Questions

Paragraph F

At first, the farmers failed to notice the negative effects on their fields of pesticide use.

Shape into pots and place them in a fire made from        and       

Cotton growing was expected to raise more money than other crop.

Paragraph B

E-coli is the most difficult bacterium to remove from water by filtration.

What project do the authorities in Punukula hope to set up in the future?

Paragraph A

Make the mixture for the filter from organic material (e.g. tea, coffee, rice),        and    …

More funding is necessary to ensure the success of the fuel-cell vehicle industry.

Coffee grounds produce filters that are twice as efficient as those using other organic materials.

Some of the local agrochemical dealers had been farmers in the past.

Neem contains many        that target plant-eating predators

Make the mixture for the filter from organic material (e.g. tea, coffee, rice),        and    …

Shape into pots and place them in a fire made from        and       

Based on use of an        called neem

o        formed by grinding seeds

It takes half an hour for a cow-manure fire to reach 950 degree.

Fuel the fire to reach a maximum heat of       

o contains a lot of       

In the late nineteenth century, the car industry invested in the development of the        , rather than fuel…

The clay in the Manatuto project was initially unsuitable for the project's purpose.

Using electricity produced by burning fossil fuels to access sources of hydrogen may increase the positive effect of the fuel-cell.

Andrew Sharp was the first person to write about the migrants to islanders

Dingoes tend to hunt native animals rather than hunting other non-native predators.

Australian animals reproduce at a slow rate as a natural way of avoiding        .

a reference to a widespread non-native species that other animals feed on

What are we told about Edwin Doran's research?

a description of a method used to kill dingoes

One limitation in the information produced by all of this research is that it

Foxes and cats are more likely to hunt native animals when there are fewer        .

The Brooklyn project team carries out their assessment of stores without the owner's knowledge

The most important achievement of traditional navigators

New research suggests that people living in food deserts often have low       

The Brooklyn project has experienced technical difficulties setting up the website

The city government has taken a considerable interest in the Brooklyn project website

What is the writer's opinion of P Wall Garrard's research?

The online map provides users with a store's name,        and details of its produce

What did David Lewis's research discover about traditional navigators?

research which has proved that dingoes have resorted to eating young livestock

how dingoes ensure that rival species do not dominate

The rate of internet use in Brooklyn is unlikely to increase in the near future

Jeffrey Heehs would like more people to assist with the Brooklyn project research

The migration of people from Asia to the Pacific

Citizen maps are sometimes made when        maps are unsatisfactory.

a mention of the dingo's arrival in Australia

a description of a barrier designed to stop dingoes, which also divides two kinds of non-natives animals

The Pacific islands were uninhabited when migrants arrived by sea from Southeast Asia

A group of professional researchers are in charge of the Brooklyn project.

Small grocery stores in cities often cannot cope with supermarket       

Edwin Doran disagreed with the findings of Lewis's research

Some supermarkets are unable to buy enough        inside cities for their stores

The dingo replaced the        as the main predatory animal in Australia.

The best thing about this type of research

Michele Ver Ploeg believes the Brooklyn project website should contain additional information

Which of the following did Steven Horvath discover during his research?

Despite being controversial, Andrew Sharp's research had positive results

Andrew Sharp believed migratory voyages were based on more on luck than skill

Dingoes have had little impact on the dying out of animal species in Australia.

One goal of the mapping project is to help develop new        on food.

the way that the structure of dingo groups affects how quickly their numbers grow

David Lewis's research was different because

The presence of dingoes puts the income of some people at risk.

A dramatist may use a        to draw our attention to various issues in society, for example some kind of inj…

a comparison between the arts and things made to perform a particular function

the development of equipment and larger       

some food was still found to be edible after more than a hundred years, e.g. an old can of       

What point is the writer making in the second paragraph?

The Foyer programme is to be adopted by the French education system.

a description of how artists hope to benefit other people

Which TWO of the following statements about composers and music does the writer make?

Appert's method resulted in preserved food that had the same taste and        as fresh food

Research proves that learning the host country language at school can have an adverse effect on a child’s mother tongue.

a claim that artists may have no clear objective when creating a piece of art

Which TWO of the following statements about composers and music does the writer make?

Apart from these obvious practical benefits, there are other benefits that we gain from things, such as the      &…

Bilingual children are taught to tell the time earlier than monolingual children.

Bilingual children It has often been noted that bilingual children acquire the        to converse in the majo…

The process of cooking gets rid of some plant poisons.

a claim that it’s possible to convince the world that anything you have made is a work of art

Nicholas Appert put food into containers made of       

Why does the writer refer to something that Goethe said?

The writer believes that when young children have a firm grasp of their mother tongue

Less than half the children who attend kindergarten in Toronto have English as their mother tongue.

early methods of food preservation included: smoking, drying and combining food with acid or       

According to Darwin, cooking was the most significant development in human history.

in 1855, the metal can opener replaced the        which had been used with a hammer to open cans

The fact that the mother tongue can disappear at a similar        is less well understood.

Bilingual children can eventually apply reading comprehension strategies acquired in one language when reading in the other.

If this is limited, children are likely to lose the active use of their mother tongue, and thus no longer employ it even with   &…

Eating cooked food is more energy efficient than eating raw food.

In paragraph D, which TWO of the following effects does the writer say the arts can have?

an example of something that has an unintentional benefit for us

In paragraph D, which TWO of the following effects does the writer say the arts can have?

It follows that teenage children in these circumstances experience a sense of        in relation to all aspec…

But there are many clear examples of their usefulness, such as the inter-dependent relationship between music and     &…

the ability to keep        as writing developed

Birdseye's trip with the not confirmed what he already believed about rapid freezing.

This phenomenon depends to a certain extent on the proportion of people with the same linguistic background that have settled in a particul…

Peter Durand introduced cans which had the advantage of being        and hard to break